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Accent and Dialect - Coggle Diagram
Accent and Dialect
Language and Regional Studies
Stoddart et al (1999)
Sheffield Study
Investigated language use in NORMS (Non-moblie, Older, Rural, Males) and compared them to younger speakers
Emma More (2011)
Communities of Practice in Bolton
Investigated groups of girls (ages)
Received Pronunciation (RP)
Split into 3 types:
Mainstream =
Contemporary =
Conservative =
Estuary English (EE)
Term coined by David Rosewarne
Emerged in the 1980s
An accent mixed with cockney and RP
Features include:
Glottal stop - not pronouncing the sound 't' (cockney)
The dark l (/ɫ/) – pronouncing ‘l’ sounds with an ‘ulll’ sound (RP)
The /aʊ/ (ow) pronunciation in words like mouth closer to /eə/ (air) in words like hair (RP)
TH-fronting – pronouncing the ‘th’ words with an ‘f’ sound. (cockney)
Multicultural London English (MLE)
Features include:
Indefinite pronoun ‘man’: man’s not hot.
‘Why…for?’ question frame: why you revising English for?
/h/ retention (keeping the ‘h’ sound in): house.
Jamaican slang like ‘blood’ for friend.
TH-stopping (creating a harsh stopped ‘t’ sound instead of a ‘th’ sound): MLE is a mad ting.
Glottal stops
MLE has spread, and is now becoming a part of the speech of teenagers up and down the country, spread mostly by grime music as exemplified by Stormzy.